Diamond Multimedia en Iomega hebben op de PC Expo nieuwe MP3 players aan het publiek gepresenteerd. Nieuw van Diamond is de Rio 600 met 32MB geheugen. Deze wordt vanaf heden voor een prijs van 169 dollar verkocht en heeft een uitbreidings mogelijkheid waarmee het playertje met weinig moeite van extra modules kan worden voorzien. Een goedkope 500MB 'DataPlay' geheugen upgrade staat al op de planning. Later dit jaar worden tevens de Rio Receiver en high-end Rio 800 gelanceerd:
That family will include the Rio 600, shipped today with 32MB of memory and priced at $169, as well as the upcoming higher-end Rio 800 and the Rio Receiver, which plays music stored on a PC through a home stereo. Car audio products are also in the pipeline. Attempting to appeal to college students and younger buyers, the Rio 600 will feature color faceplates, like the popular low-cost Nokia cell phones, and will be easily upgradeable with more memory.
The upgrades will come in the form of "jackets," which easily slide on and off the player. These jackets will come with various memory upgrades, along with a high-capacity storage technology called DataPlay, which will be out by the end of the year.
DataPlay 500MB miniature disks are priced about the same as blank cassette tapes or CD-RW disks, according to Reed.
The new players include support for MP3 and Windows Media audio formats, he said, along with the new secure AAC and InterTrust Technologies formats. This means that when record labels eventually make secure music available for download, the Rio 600 will be able to play the new files.
Iomega heeft een MP3 player aangekondigd die gebruikt van 40MB Clik disks. Meer daarover lees je in dit artikel van News.com.
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